Jennifer Pennington isn’t your ordinary ginger. She has been a board member and manager of nonprofits for over 20 years — including the Art Shanty Projects, Twin Cities Mobile Market, Minnesota Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration, Early Childhood Resource & Training Center, and Sociologists of Minnesota.

As if that isn’t impressive enough, she’s served as a Minnesota Council on Foundations fellow, is an Opportunity Nation Leader representing Minnesota and a Metropolitan State University faculty member where she teaches a class on leadership. Rightfully so.